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Path Guide

What if you are new in your locality and you are not that much familiar with the streets. What will you do? The only answer in your mind is using navigation device, but what if you don’t have any source of internet connectivity, what would you do then? Seeing right through this problem Microsoft took an initiative by launching a brand new app. We can call it offline version of GPS. The name of App is Path Guide. How does it works? Unlike GPS which shows the precise outlining of the area for navigation using Internet connectivity. Path Guide allows you to navigate your streets without using GPS. The app doesn’t need the Wi-Fi either and is very useful for indoor navigation. The app launched in available only for android users on Google Play Store. The Path guide app uses sensors on your phone to record every movement in a particular area, or even in the city. Path Guide app allows users can produce maps of buildings and permits them to make these maps public, allow...

CS 1.6 all servers taken down

CS 1.6 , most probably is the first game that any gamer played. The game contains sentiments and lot of emotions. Those days were marvelous when all friends gather at one place connect their PC's with LAN and the play CS 1.6. Those shouting, abusing, taunting were the things that made the playing more interesting and we all remember the stuff we do while those hang outs and after the game is over we all try to pull each others legs my telling the tales about the stuff we did while playing and the number of ways we killed other or how stupid someone else's game was. Well all of this, all the fun and joy have ended now because ESEA (E-Sports Entertainment Association League) has put out a statement announcing that they are officially shutting down servers for Counter Strike 1.6. Here’s the announcement from their website: When ESEA was founded, the only game it supported was Counter-Strike 1.6. Although Counter-Strike had already solidified itself as one of the founders of e-spor...

What is a Processor?

Smartphones have been the most important part of our lives. We have seen the evolution of our  handsets. First we saw landlines which were mess of tangled wires then we saw mobile phones which is successor of landlines. They were portable devices from which you can make calls then we witnessed emergence of Smartphones which were  considered as portable computers which also allows us to make calls. What is a Processor? Underneath that touchscreen display there is a full- fledged computer that commands your apps so that they function properly. A processor executes what you want your smartphone to do or in other word you can say processor is brain of computer. there is Exynos, Snapdragon, quad-core octa-core etc. What is a core? It is an element of surprises. They are present inside processor and are responsible for reading the command and executing them. First devices came with single core processor but later on scientists invented more advanced processors such as dual core , So...